More quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

"To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary."
"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"
"Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!"
"It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe."
"I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched."